Tax incentives, lower cost of living, and pro business local governments are driving larger companies to relocate headquarters or major research ops to Texas en-mass.

It's a big tech hub outside of silicon valley that's arguably more fun and undeniably less expensive

Right after CA, Texas is the highest GDP state. It's also has beautiful clouds and sunsets.

Google Fiber? (In Austin at least)

Texas has always had a huge tech industry presence, particularly the telecom industry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecom_Corridor (and there's also a lot of tech industry here outside the Corridor proper, too)

Personally, I love living and working in the suburbs of Dallas, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

The Texas economy has, until a few months ago, been booming due to shale oil & gas development. Add in no income tax and warm weather with young folks doing sporty things and it's fairly attractive.

Austin has a somewhat robust semiconductor focus, with Freescale, AMD, Intel, and Apple present. Some low-power IOT type tech including Silicon Labs (Energy Micro), and Ambiq in addition to afore-mentioned Freescale. There are a few DOD/spook type shops, and some financial techs, such as Visa, Paypal, Netspend, etc.

Isocline - Austin, TX - Software Engineer for High Performance Computing and Modeling

We are looking for two people - one interested in neural networks and one interested in GPS.

We are developing microchips that yield a 10-1000x improvement in performance & energy-efficiency compared to digital ASICs, GPUs, and FPGAs. We are a bootstrapped company and are fully funded through mid 2016. Patents pending.

C++ experience is required!

$70K – $150K Salary

0.5% – 1.2% Equity

Full Job Description: https://angel.co/isocline/jobs/38767-software-engineer

Company website: http://isoclineengineering.com/